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W. W. COVELL.l BUTTON 0R STUD.

No.V 374,115. n Patented Nov. 29, 1887.

WITNESSE'S. INVENTUR.

' UNITEDu STATES PATENT Ormea.

WILLIAM W.l COVELL, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK LMAROY, OF SAME PLAGE.

BUTTON 0R STUD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,115, dated November 29, 18S?.

` Application filed November' 13, 1885. Serial No. 218,823. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. CovnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons or Studs; and I do hereby declare the following specification,

taken in connection with the accompanying` drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof.

This invention relates to that varietyrof buttons or studs in which the shoe is hinged to the post, so that the former can be turned substantially parallel with the latter to facilitate the application and removal of the button or stud, and also be turned at rig-ht angles thereto to retain the button or stud in place.

The invention consists in certain features of construction and arrangement, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a side View of asleeve-button embodying the invention, with the shoe at right angles to the post. Fig. 2 shows a similar View with the shoe substantially parallel with the post. Fig. 3 represents a rear View of the button, with the front or shell of the shoe removed. Fig. 4 shows a similar' view ofthe shoe, with the bearing-plate removed. Figs. 5 and 6 show, respectively, the spring and the lower portion of the post in perspective. Fig. 7 shows a plan view of the inner side of the cap-plate. Fig. 8 represents the bearing-plate in perspective. Fig. 9 shows a side view of the button, with the shoe in section. Figs. 10 and l1 represent sectional views of shoes of modied forms of construction.

A is the button-head, which may be of any preferred form or style. B is the postsecured thereto, and G is the shoe, which is hinged to the post. As shown in Figs. 6 and 9, the free end of t-he post is bent to one side, and is provided with a salient angle, b, as in the majority of this variety of buttons, and this end of the post is furnished with a hole, b', through which a spring, D, passes. This spring not. only holds the shoe in its locked positions, but also pivots the shoe to the post, so that the former may be turned upon the latter.

As shown in the drawings, the spring D is made of round wire bent into a substantiallyrectangular shape, and liattened or made thinner at d d, (although this exact form is not essential, as will be readily understood,) and is located between the front or shell c of the shoe and thecap-plate c thereof. The capplate c is provided with a slot, c2, to allow the post to enter the shoe and the latter to swing on the former, and preferably has a portion, c3, bent inwardly, so as to fit against the inclined end of the post, as shown in Fig. 9.

In order to prevent the salient angle or camshaped end b of the post from indenting the shell c of the shoe by constant action upon it when the shoe is turned, I prefer to employ a re-enforcing or bearing plate, E, Figs. 3, 8, and 9, which is interposed between the post end and the shell c. This plate may also be utilized to hold the spring in proper position in the shoe by bending a portion, e, of said plate partially around the arm d of the spring, as shown in Figs. 3 and 9, so that when the parts of the shoe are secured in place by the turning of the edge of the shell c over upon the cap-plate c', (as is usual,) the spring will be secured against any displacement.

If desired, the shelllc may be made of sufficiently-thick stock so that the action of the post thereon will not indent it, and the spring be secured against displacement by indentingthe cap-plate c', as at et, Fig. l0, or by indenting the shell c, as shown by dotted line in the same ligure.

Whether a bearing-plate be used 0r not, the displacement of the spring may be prevented, as shown in Fig. ll, by ears c5 c6 upon the cap-plate, between which ears the arm d2 of the spring shall play. The ears c6 are also shown in dotted lines in Fig. 7.

With any of these arrangements for preventing a displacement of the spring the arm d thereof will be confined near the edge of the shoe, as shown in the several figures.

The spring D is bent or shaped so as to hold the free end of the post in Contact with the bearing-plate or shoe-shell, the arm d2 of the spring standing away from the cap-plate c', so that when the-shoe is turned upon the post said arm of the spring can move toward said plate when the spring is further strained by the cam-shaped end b of the post as the shoe ICO is turned, the said arm of the spring, under such circumstances, moving substantially in the are of a eirele, as will be readily nnderstood.

As shown in Fig. 9, the inwardly-bent portion e3 of the cap-plate c fits against the inclined end of the post, so as to prevent any openingr into the shoe on that side of the post when the shoe is at right angles to the post; and, as shown bydotted lines in Fig. 2, when the shoe is turned parallel with the post the lower or inner end of said inwardlybent porn tion of the cap-plate comes in contact with the post and prevents any opening into the shoe on that side vof the post at such time,- thereby securing a better appearance.

What l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The Combination, with the post and the shoe of a button or stud, ot' the spring, substantially' as described, located in the shoe and having one end held securely therein, while the other or free end is pivotally attached to the post, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a post, of a shoe having a front or shell, e, a slotted cap-plate, c', a spring, D, located between the said shell and plate and pivoted to the post, and means, substantially as described, for preventing a displacement of the spring in' the shoe, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with thepost, of a shoe composed of a shell, c, a eap-plate, c', a spring, D, located between said shell and plate and pivoted to the post, and a bearing-plate, E, for the post-end, which plate is bent to prevent a displacement of the spring, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the post having its free end bent to one side, of a shoe hinged thereto and having a eap-plate which is slotted to allow the post to enter the shoe, and has an inwardly-bent portion, c, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

VILLIAM XV. COVELL Witnesses:

GEO. W. GABY, EDsoN SALISBURY Johns.. 

